Word: frogged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chris is the long and leggy (5 ft. 10 in., 140 lbs.) blonde leader of a strong U.S. team. Chris planes high and flat in the water like a surfboard, has a sea lion's endurance-and a teen-ager's superstition about a good-luck plastic frog, which she solemnly stations by her starting block before a race. Her challengers: Australia's Dawn Fraser, 22, an octogenarian by swimming standards, and the slumping, doubt-ridden Ilsa Konrads, the 16-year-old kid sister of John. World Record Holder Fraser will be the favorite...
...Frog Method...
...somewhat skeptical of Reader Hakim Khan's unscientific method of birth control [May 9]. However, after having caught a frog, spat in its face thrice, and having left it where I found it, I find that I am not pregnant...
From his steadily building stock, Morgan is slaughtering at the rate of 13,000 frogs daily, shipping 1½ tons of legs to a cannery in the nearby town of Güines. "Cuba shipped $1,000,000 worth of frogs' legs to the U.S. last year," says Morgan. "I'm going to double that." He dehydrates the frog carcasses into "fish meal" for cattle, plans to use the skins to make purses and belts...
...Frogman Morgan wears a gold-plated .45 with a bullet ready in the chamber. Tommy-gun-carrying bodyguards follow him around. He and his Cuban bride live in a six-room apartment on Havana's waterfront Malecón drive. It has 18 bunks, where the frog-farm workers, who call him "William,'' sleep whenever they come to town. His U.S. citizenship was lifted for fighting in a foreign army, and he laments that he is "running out of countries." But he professes optimism about his future in Cuba, even though "Fidel and Raúl know...